New additions!

Here is Petuna, our new addition to our little farm! She is a purebred Nubian, pretty little girl might I add! I just love the ears and their big eyes! too cute! She is about 5mos old. I think her and our little Joe will be making the cutest of babies, once of course they are both old enough!

 Here is Daisy learning to like her new friend! ;)

 Petuna enjoying some rubbing

 Lily and Petuna are becoming aquanted a little quicker than her and Daisy!

 and one last addition, here is Gracie, Mikayla new fiber bunny! She is too cute as well!

Love this, she was trying to hold her closer to her face for a pic, but the bunny had other ideas!

The deal was for Mikayla to build Gracie a home, and she did do that, I just havent got pictures yet, will soon!



Cajeta!

I can not believe I have never heard of Cajeta before now! It is AMAZING!

Cajeta is a mexican caramel sauce made from goats milk. It does take a

little bit of time to make, but well worth it! Especially when you have utter

overflow going on at your house! Milking four goats twice a day equals alot of extra milk!

Cajeta
Ingredients:
2 quarts of goat’s milk
2 cups of sugar
1 cinnamon stick
1 vanilla bean or 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract
1 teaspoon of baking soda

Method:
1. Stir together the milk and sugar in a large pot (make sure the liquid only goes half-way up the sides as it’s going to get frothy at one point and you don’t want it boiling over) and add the cinnamon and vanilla (if using a bean, split it lengthwise, scrape the seeds into the liquid and add the pod as well). Bring to a boil on medium heat while constantly stirring. This will take about 15 minutes.
2. When milk boils, remove from heat and add baking soda (dissolved in a bit of water) to the pot. The mixture will rise and get frothy, but as long as you keep stirring it will be fine.
3. Place the pot back on the stove on medium heat, and stir and stir and stir (though if you need to take a break, leaving the pot unattended for a minute or so won’t cause any harm to the cajeta). Make sure the milk stays at a gentle simmer rather than a raging boil.
4. After about an hour, the milk should start to turn golden brown. Remove the cinnamon stick and the vanilla pod. At this point, it will start to thicken fast, so it’s important to keep stirring so the milk doesn’t burn on the bottom of the pan.
5. Keep stirring until the mixture is a rich brown and thick enough to coat the back of the spoon, which will happen in about 15 minutes.
6. Pour into a glass container. It should keep in the refrigerator for a week, though mine has never lasted that long.
Notes: You can find goat’s milk at most health-food stores or farmer’s markets. Also, the cajeta gets thicker as it cools, so be sure not to overcook it. If it’s too thick, however, you can thin it by adding hot water.

I think this is one recipe that we will be enjoying for years to come!

Summer Days

Summer has seem to go by so fast, I know it's not over yet, but we are already in August! Wow!

Our little farm keeps us quit busy. Seems like something interesting is always going on. Usually it's just goats getting out of the fence or stuck in the fence! Maddie our horse, she had a hoof infection, so she needed contsant care to her hoof, which is all better now!

 This is our new Nubian Buck, he is 9weeks old, and will be our herd shire. I'm wanting to steer in the pure bred breeds with nubians. They have high butterfat in their milk, good for cheese! Also who can resist those supper cute large floppy ears!! So this is Joe(for now, the name he came with) He is sooo sweet. He's been previously bottle feed with his owner before, so we thought to help him adjust we would continue to do so, he is also soo much smaller than our other boys who are the same age, so I think more milk will do him good!

 Mikayla bottle feeding Joe(with the only spare bottle we had on had-4oz he could drink in 2secs) Sullivan with his bottle, he thought it was very funny to see the goat drinking from a bottle! :)

 Mikayla with one of our doelings that we recently sold along with another! We miss them, but can not keep them all!

 We have been rolling in HUGE zucchini lately! Wow, this stuff grows sooooo fast that I can rarely get it out of the garden in time before it's wayyy too big! But in the freezer it's going!

 Just to show how big, the yellow summer squash is about the "normal" size you see in the store right now!

 More of cute Joe! Love his flop ears, big eyes! soo sweet!

 This big guy has changed soo much, when he was born he only had a black stripe down his back, now he has all this black on his face, more starting on his chest, and on his sides! I didnt realize they could change that way!

 Chickens- they have not been very good lately, they have decided to lay their eggs somewhere besides the coop, we cannot find them! So we have practically no eggs! One chicken has stayed faithful to lay in the coop. But the rest, who knows where. We have been on soo many egg hunts and cant figure it out. Anyone have any ideas where too look?
  These next pictures Mikayla has taken. I have let her start using my backup camera, and she seems to be enjoy capturing moments! Great job Mikayla!

 Sullivan giving his baby brother a hug!